Improvement in sheathing-boards for buildings



UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

W. E. HALE, rOF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHEATHING-BOARDS FOR'BUlLDINGS.

Sp eciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 99,432, dated February 1, 1870; antedated August 1, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, W. E. HALE, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved sheathing-Board for Buildings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 are detail perspective views, illustrating different applications of my improved sheathing-board.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction or manufacture of a continuous sheet of thick straw-board, saturated with tar, in order to render the same water-proof and impart strength and solidity to the same, having it of sufcient thickness--say from onesixteenth to one-quarter inch in thicknessand made in a continuous strip or sheet, and of any desired width or length, and then passing the same through any vessel or vat containing hot coal-tar, then passing the same between suitable drying-rollers, and formed into rolls, ready for shipping and market. Straw-board thus saturated and prepared then becomes invaluable for the purposes of rootin g houses or buildings, for covering the sides of the same, or for. application upon the inner sides of walls and ceilings, presenting a uniform surface, that will admit, in the latter mode of application, papering or painting thereupon, or sanding the same, if desired.

When this straw-board is applied to roofs or the outside of buildings, it should be laid on lengthwise of the roof, commencing at the eaves. The succeedinglayers of straw-board may overlap the one below it, so that when nailed to the rootboards the nails pass through and secure both the upper and lower` strips.

It is unnecessary to apply stay-laths or an additional coat ot' tar; but both can be so applied if deemed advisable. When the roof thus constructed is completed, it may at any time be easily repaired by the application to it of coats of paint or tar, either one or both.

By this mode of constructing roofs a further protection to the roof may be made by appl ying shingles thereto in the usual manner, or boards ceiled and matched.

In applying this straw-board, as aforesaid constructed, to the sides of houses or buildings, the same may be done either horizontally or vertically, and lapped sufficiently so as to allow its firm attachment to the studding, and when thus applied weather-boarding may be used in the usual way over the same, and thereby produce awarm and comfortable building.

When this straw-board is applied' to the walls or ceilings the same can be carefully trimmed to make a fair joint, and a coat of paint or wall-paper may be applied thereto, presenting as smooth asurface and appearance as does a wall of ordinary lath and plaster.

This material for rooting, &c., is produced in sheets of any desired length and of such width as is provided for by the capacity of the machine by which it is made.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture and trade, the herein-described fabric for covering the roofs, sides, and walls of buildings.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 2d day of January, 1869.

W. E. HALE.

Witnesses:

E. GREENE COLLINS, JAMEs T. GRAHAM. 

